Online Counseling for Couples
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Counseling for Couples in Illinois
Are you just getting started as a couple? Have you been together for decades? Challenges await around every corner for all couples. Managing the demands of family, career and community can leave you little time or energy for maintaining your relationship. Before you know it, one of the most important relationships in your life has fallen apart. Couples counseling from Barnum Counseling can help you gain the skills and tools you need to repair and maintain that relationship.
Ali tailors couples counseling to your specific needs. She uses evidence-based strategies derived from world-renowned relationship experts including John and Julie Gottman, Susan Johnson, Terry Real, and Esther Perel.
All couples counseling at Barnum Counseling comes in the form of online, HIPAA-compliant Telehealth sessions. Couples appreciate the ability to receive therapy without the need for childcare or transportation.
Respect and affection are essential to all relationships working. Contempt destroys them.
John Gottman
Types of Couples Therapy Available at Barnum Counseling
Counseling for Dating Couples
Dating can be full of new and exciting experiences. But it comes with its share of unpredictable challenges. Are you are newly dating? Been dating for years? You can benefit from counseling. Dating after divorce or feeling a little stuck or uncertain about what’s next? Online therapy for dating couples in is a great option. You’ll learn to resolve conflicts and reinforce the areas of strength in your relationship. Let Ali help you discover a healthy path to your future together.
Pre-Marital Counseling
Engagement is an exciting and emotion-filled time. Wedding planning can certainly be stressful. Ali can help you work through the stress by providing a safe place to discuss expectations for the future. Her pre-marital training is based on John & Julie Gottman’s Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work. It will help you to identify areas of strength within the relationship as well as areas for improvement. Working with Ali before tying the knot can help solidify the foundation you’ve built together.
Marriage Counseling
Imagine how helpful it could be to discuss emotionally-charged topics in a safe environment? Whether you are newly married or married for many years, online marriage counseling offers many benefits. Ali brings a fresh perspective on the strengths of your marriage and offers insight on areas that may need improvement. Marriage counseling will give you the skills and tools to communicate more effectively with one another. You’ll learn how to address and resolve conflict in constructive ways.
Counseling for LGBTQ+ Couples
Every couple is different. Ali understands that LGBTQ couples face challenges that are unique, varied and complex. She provides care that is both inclusive and validating to couples of all orientations and gender identities. Ali uses an approach that is open, welcoming and non-judgmental. Her years of experience helping LGBTQ couples means that she comprehends what you face. At Barnum Counseling, you’ll find therapy and counseling action plans that are thoughtfully customized to meet each LGBTQ couple exactly where they are on their journey.
Love has an immense ability to help heal the devastating wounds that life sometimes deals us. Love also enhances our sense of connection to the larger world. Loving responsiveness is the foundation of a truly compassionate society.
Sue Johnson
Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
Barnum Counseling is in network with most major insurance companies. If you would like to know if your insurance covers couples counseling, please contact Ali.
Couples counseling can help you save what may be the most important relationship in your life.
Contact Ali today to lean how!
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